Everybody Wants To Have A Community Until They’re In One

“Community is a place of conflict: conflict inside each one of us. There is first of all the conflict between the values of the world and the values of community, between togetherness and independence. It is painful to lose one’s independence, and to come into togetherness. Loss of independence is painful, particularly in a world where we have been told to be independent and to cultivate the feeling that ‘I don’t need anyone else’.”